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Big tech’s dramatic ramp-up in projected capital expenditures this year will all but wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google and Meta Platforms. That will force some of those companies to make some difficult choices, such as whether to end stock buybacks or borrow more money.
The good news is that the big tech companies have the capacity to each borrow hundreds of billions more money than they currently do.
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday declared Anthropic a supply chain risk, an extraordinary sanction against an American company that is usually reserved for foreign adversaries. “Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military ... Read more ›
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A midair crash prompted a bill that would have mandated new anti-collision alerts. Safety advocates say a revised GOP bill doesn't do enough. Read more ›
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Crypto venture firm Paradigm is raising as much as $1.5 billion for a new fund that will invest in broader tech including artificial intelligence and robotics, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the situation. The move comes as more crypto firms and investors are ... Read more ›
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the policies of a private youth organization at a moment of high tension in the Middle East. Read more ›
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Before you book, check how major U.S. airlines stack up on delays and cancellations during the busiest months of 2025, and what that means for travelers. Read more ›
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Q Hayashida’s blend of fantasy, sci‑fi, and dark humor deserves far more recognition. Read more ›
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Starting on Monday, we're going to get our first major product announcements of 2026. Apple CEO Tim Cook teased a "big week ahead" with an "Apple Launch" hashtag, plus Apple has media events scheduled in New York, Shanghai, and London on Wednesday, March 4. We're expecting the iPhone 17e, an all-new low-cost MacBook, and minor refreshes to the Mac and iPad lines. Low-Cost MacBook Rumors about the MacBook's design make... Read more ›
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South Korea has reversed a two-decade policy and approved the export of high-precision map data, paving the way for a fully functional Google Maps in the country. Reuters reports: The approval was made "on the condition that strict security requirements are met," the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said in a statement. Those conditions include blurring military and other sensitive security-related facilities, as well as restricting longitude and latitude... Read more ›
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Streaming company’s decision ends months-long battle to buy parent of CNN, HBO and franchises such as Harry Potter Read more ›
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The landscape of enterprise artificial intelligence shifted fundamentally today as OpenAI announced $110 billion in new funding from three of tech's largest firms: $30 billion from SoftBank, $30 billion from Nvidia, and $50 billion from Amazon.But while the former two players are providing money, OpenAI is going further with Amazon in a new direction, establishing an upcoming fully "Stateful Runtime Environment" on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world's most used... Read more ›
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NASA announced at a press conference on Friday that it's delaying its plans for a Moon landing until Artemis IV in 2028. The Artemis III mission, scheduled for 2027, was originally going to attempt to land on the Moon but will now be a test flight instead. NASA also says it's "increasing its cadence of […] Read more ›
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After American and United significantly increased their schedules at O’Hare, the FAA is now looking to reduce flights at the airport this summer out of concern that the airport could face more strain. Read more ›
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Nearly two hours after President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he was banning Anthropic products from the federal government, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth took it one step further and announced that he was now designating the AI company as a "supply-chain risk". After a week of tense negotiations over the company's acceptable […] Read more ›
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Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the line between human intuition and machine logic hasn’t just blurred. It has been fundamentally redrawn. In a remarkably short time, what once felt like distant science fiction became a daily tool used ... Read more ›
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The Federal Communications Commission has given the go ahead for two of the US' biggest cable providers, Charter Communications and Cox Communications, to merge. Charter announced its intention to acquire Cox for $34.5 billion in May 2025, with specific plans to inherit Cox's managed IT, commercial fiber and cloud businesses, while folding the company's residential cable service into a subsidiary.“By approving this deal, the FCC ensures big wins for Americans,"... Read more ›
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I test coffee makers for a living, and these are my top-rated espresso machines for small kitchens. Read more ›
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From season 4 arrives on April 19 – here's everything we know so far, including the sci-fi horror show's confirmed release date, cast, plot rumors, news and more. Read more ›
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LG Display has been awarded '100% dimming consistency' by a third-party assessor to show that OLEDs are more consistent than LCD Read more ›
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OpenAI recently raised its outlook for revenue for the next five years, predicting it would generate about 27% more than previously forecast from sales of its ChatGPT subscriptions and other business lines, The Information reported Friday. But it warned it will burn more than twice as much cash ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: A radical bet on a totally different type of longevity cure • The Top 5: The best home sauna tech• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “The Secret World of Roald Dahl,” “Vigil” and “Love Story”Judging strictly by appearances, anyone who is anyone in tech is looking to carve out a niche for themselves in AI. The smart ones are asking themselves... Read more ›
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The tech world is a realm that enjoys obsessing over the newest things: the vibe coding apps, the orchestrating agents, the driverless cars. It also enjoys modernizing the very ancient. The latest example: saunas, which are believed to have existed in some form or another since the Stone Age. They’ve been popular gathering points since the Romans embraced bathing as a public pastime, and lately, there’s been a boomlet in... Read more ›
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OpenAI unveiled long term partnerships with consulting groups McKinsey & Company, Accenture, Boston Consulting Group, and Capgemini aimed at promoting its “Frontier” software for managing AI agents to businesses, in OpenAI’s latest shot at enterprise software firms. The offering will compete ... Read more ›
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Before we get to what’s coming this week, let’s take a moment to honor the company that has honed the power of magical thinking. That would be OpenAI, whose latest long term revenue and profit projections we reported on Friday night here. The most important element of the report was that in 2025, the cost of running AI models quadrupled, so the company’s gross margin fell to 33%, which is... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump called on Netflix to kick former Biden administration official Susan Rice off its board, “or pay the consequences.” His comments came after Rice said on a podcast that if Democrats win control of the House of Representatives this fall “there will be an accountability ... Read more ›
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Nvidia is planning to release a new chip in the first half of this year for consumer laptops and desktops in collaboration with Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek, The Wall Street Journal reported. PC makers such as Dell Technologies and Lenovo Group are working on products using the chip, which ... Read more ›
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Elon Musk said Monday that SpaceX has been cutting prices for its Starlink satellite internet service to reach more customers. He made the comments in response to an article in The Information on the topic. SpaceX has introduced cheaper plans in the U.S. and other countries in recent months, has ... Read more ›
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Anthropic accused Chinese model developers DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax of using data from Anthropic’s Claude models to train and improve their own AI. The Chinese model developers created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million chats with Anthropic’s Claude model to ... Read more ›
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Reddit’s explosive revenue growth of the past two years turbocharged the company’s stock after its 2024 initial public offering, lifting it nearly 700% to its highs of around $270 last fall. That rally was markedly different from the tepid performance that similarly sized social media companies such as Snap and Pinterest endured after their public debuts in 2017 and 2019, respectively. In hindsight, that’s not surprising. Reddit’s IPO turned out... Read more ›
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